Background
He was born in New York City on December 7, 1906.
He was born in New York City on December 7, 1906.
He attended Brooklyn College then operated a cafeteria across from the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
He switched to making tea bags after his cafeteria business declined. He came up with the idea of single servings of table sugar to utilize his tea bag machinery. He shopped the idea to the major sugar producers, but was unsuccessful.
Since he had not secured a patent, sugar producers were free to use his idea without paying royalties.
In 1957 he came up with a formula for a powdered saccharin sweetener. Previously saccharin was sold as liquid drops, or tiny tablets.
He mixed the saccharin with dextrose to bulk it up to a teaspoon sized portion, added cream of tartar, and calcium silicate as anti-caking agents. He marketed it in bright pink packets.
His company was also the first to package soy sauce and other single serving condiments.
After his company was successful he became chairman of the board of the foundation for Maimonides Medical Center. They had the following children: Marvin Eisenstadt who married Barbara. Gladys Eisenstadt; Ira Eisenstadt who married Deirdre Howley, and Ellen Eisenstadt who married Herbert Cohen.
Benjamin died at age 89 after complications from open heart surgery.
Maimonides Medical Center has the Eisenstadt Administration Building and the Gellman Pavilion. The Gellman Pavilion was named in memory of Doctor Abraham Gellman, the brother of Betty Gellman (1910-2001).
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1906 Birth in Brooklyn
1945 Cumberland Cafeteria closes
1947 Cumberland Cafeteria converted to Cumberland Packaging Corporation
1956 Marvin Eisenstadt joins the company
1970 "Sweet"North Low" registered trademark of Cumberland Packaging Corporation
1996 in Brooklyn
2001 of Betty Gellman, his widow.